Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 Merrie Melodies animated cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Bros. Pictures. The cartoon is notable as being the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Jones. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is set in the Stone Age and features Daffy Duck, a caveman named Casper (a caricature of Jack Benny), and his pet dinosaur, Fido. As usual, Mel Blanc provides the voice of Daffy here, while Casper was performed by Jack Lescoulie. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Merrie Melodies end title Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. ... Chuck Jones in 1976 Charles Martin Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. ... Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a Jewish producer at the Warner Bros. ... Warner Bros. ... Daffy, as Duck Dodgers, faces off against Marvin the Martian in the 1953 short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, a parody of Buck Rogers. ... Stone Age fishing hook. ... A typical depiction of a caveman, as seen in a Minute Maid advertisement. ... It has been suggested that The Jack Benny Program be merged into this article or section. ... Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of cartoon shorts for Warner Bros. ... Jack Lescoulie (b. ...

Overview

Jones' direction

Most of Chuck Jones-directed cartoons from this era (such as the ones featuring Sniffles the Mouse), were very heavily inspired by Walt Disney's cartoon shorts, placing more emphasis on story and animation than gags. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur shows the faintest hints of deviation from such cartoons, which would eventually lead to the fast-paced Jones cartoons of the 1940s, such as The Dover Boys and The Draft Horse. Sniffles is an animated cartoon and comic book character in the Warner Bros. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (better known as simply The Dover Boys) is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and directed by Chuck Jones. ... The Draft Horse is a Warner Bros. ...

This is also an important milestone in the evolution of Daffy Duck's personality. While Tex Avery and Bob Clampett had depicted Daffy as completely insane, irrational, and uncontrollable in their previous cartoons with the character, Jones depicted Daffy here as somewhat more thoughtful and calculating. Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng would continue to develop Daffy's personality in this direction throughout the 1940s and 1950s Frederick Bean Fred/Tex Avery (Wednesday, February 26, 1908 – Tuesday, August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. ... Robert Emerson Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Isadore Friz Freleng (August 21, 1905–May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

Menorable lines

Casper Caveman: "Yum, yummy! My favorite vegetable, duck!"

Uses in pop culture

This short was featured (albeit with altered sound effects and music) in the "Memorial" episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres constructs an antique television set for Lieutenant Tom Paris and programs into it the entire ship's database of old television programs. As Paris flips through the channels, he excitedly discovers Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur and exclaims, "CARTOON!" The starship Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid-class starship. ... BElanna Torres, played by Roxann Dawson in Star Trek: Voyager, is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... Television set may refer to: Television, a device to display television programs Television studio, an installation in which television or video productions take place Set construction, theatrical scenery This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Thomas Eugene Paris, played by Robert Duncan McNeill, is a fictional character in the Star Trek television series Star Trek: Voyager. ...

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is today one of several Merrie Melodies shorts in the public domain, and is freely available for purchase and download from many sources. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

Links

• Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur at the Internet Movie Database

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